Ryan Winzen’s rise to virtual folk hero status is proof that a lot can happen in just three days. It all started with a pre-alpha YouTube trailer for his pet project: a Starcraft II mod called World of Starcraft. You can already see where this is going. The pre-alpha video demoed a suite of selectable [...]

Starcraft II is like an echo channeled through twelve years of game design: textured somewhat by its passage, but still an echo. Blizzard has certainly reassembled all the components they used to define the realtime strategy genre, but whether that’s a good thing largely depends on your tastes.